Top 10 Deep South Films You Must OwnGeorge Clooney leads the Soggy Bottom Boys on a magical tour of Thirties Mississippi, taking in good ol’ Southern traditons such as the KKK, chain gangs, baby-faced bank robbers and alluring sirens.
(2000)
Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg shine in Spielberg’s moving story about the hardships faced by poor black women in the South.
(1985)
As Atlanta burns, Rhett tells Scarlett: ‘You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the old South fall on night’. That’ll be the South of cavaliers and cotton fields, then. Fiddle-de-dee.
(1939)
Teenage Delta blues fan Ralph Macchio, on a quest to find Robert Johnson’s ‘lost song’, teams up with Johnson’s pal Willie Brown and faces down the Devil at the crossroads.
(1986)
Oscar-winning feelgood movie set in Georgia starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy.
(1989)
Kathy Bates is the bored Alabama housewife inspired by elderly Jessica Tandy in a cross-generational romantic tale about the search for the meaning of life in the perfect sauce.
(1991)
Liz Taylor smoulders in the film of the Tennessee Williams play, charting tensions bubbling beneath polite Mississippi society.
(1958)
Southern lawman Gene Hackman and northern idealist Willem Dafoe clash over the murder of three civil rights workers. Based on a true story.
(1988)